Technical Advisory Committee for Enhancement of knowledge base on UT in India

Working Group for developing the approach for Urban Transport in the 11th FYP

Secretarial assistance by IUT to the committee on Mechanism for Safety Certification for Guided Mass Rapid Transit Systems (GUMTS)

Secretarial assistance by IUT to the Advisory Committee to review the Methodology and progress in the study on "Traffic & Transportation Policies and Strategies in Urban Areas” by Wilbursmith Associates

WORKSHOPS/TRAINING PROGRAMS

Some of the more important programs are listed below;

Training Program on Guidelines and Toolkits for Urban Transport Development in Medium Sized Cities in India at Goa, Hyderabad and Delhi

CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT COMPONENT OF GEF (SUTP) PROJECT FUNDED JOINTLY BY UNDP AND MINISTRY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MOUD has initiated Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) with the support of Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UNDP and the World bank to facilitate the provision of urban transport infrastructure and services in a manner that is consistent with sustainable growth and the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP).

IUT has been providing administrative support to the Project Management Unit set up for the SUTP project. The project preparation was completed on 31st December’2009. Project implementation has started. For the launch of this project, IUT organized two days workshop on 9th - 10th June 2010 at Vigyan Bhawan.

IUT is the Project Manager for the Capacity Building component of this project. The project is of 4 years duration. This involves organizing 3 consultancies for strengthening of IUT, one each to prepare a business plan for IUT; preparing training modules and training materials; and preparing toolkits and supervising their work

Organizing 21 National Validation workshops to validate all training material;

10 training programs to train 100 trainers in 10 subject modules

Another 40 regular training programs (1000 trainees)

Recruitment of about 15 staff as per SUTP plan to strengthen IUT

Setting up the Knowledge cum data base center

APPRAISAL OF PROJECT REPORTS FOR FUNDING UNDER JNNURM AND MOUD

Carrying out the appraisal of reports on urban transport under JnNURM and for projects funded by MoUD These include proposals for bus funding projects, City Mobility Plans (CMP), Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS), City Traffic and Transportation Study (CTTS), Non-Motorised Transport (NMT), metro rail etc. In addition several technical documents are sent by the Ministry for comments.